Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen

A report on a study finding that "Africans who have never listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music" and which may "explain why Western music has been so successful in global music distribution, even in music cultures that do not as strongly emphasize the role of emotional expression in their music" — Language of music may really be universal.

The study was led by Thomas Fritz of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, an excuse if there ever was one to repost this Lutheran cantata composed in that city, which also, incidentally, proves the existence of the Christian God: